We provide a series of programs and tools for family childcare providers, teachers, and center directors. Our staff go into the classroom and spend significant time coaching providers, using valid and reliable tools to raise environmental quality, increase positive teacher-child interactions, fortify business practices, and strengthen social and academic skills. ECN also provides a variety of trainings and connects families and childcare providers to early childhood educational opportunities. Our staff aids teachers in making professional development plans.

Our partnership with Early Learning Ventures allows for full-day, full-year Early Head Start programs for low income children in Garfield County, to ensure they have the healthy and enriching early experiences to realize their full potential. In addition to receiving little to no-cost quality licensed child care, all EHS eligible children and families will receive support from trained professional instructional staff, research-based curriculum, family support, services promoting nutrition, development, mental and dental health and much more.

A child’s earliest teachers must love, respect and nurture them. Selecting a provider who connects with young children emotionally is critical. It’s very important that a family selects a provider who reads to their child every day, encourages curiosity, and allows a child to explore the world around him or her. ECN emphasizes the need to foster quality while building capacity, because research shows that high quality early childhood education programs contribute to: supporting the social, emotional, and cognitive competence of children; increasing parental resilience and knowledge of child development; building the social connections of parents; and providing concrete parental supports.